Develop excellent employees GBE topic

Gorham Business Exchange will hold a breakfast meeting on Wednesday, Oct. 19, from 7:30-9 a.m. at Moody’s Collision Centers, 200 Narragansett St., Gorham.

Dede Perkins, exchange executive director, said Michelle Neujahr, director Southern Maine Community College’s Entrepreneurial Center and business renovation coach, would present the program “Develop Excellent Employees, Strategies to Engage Your Followers.”

Catered breakfast is $15 for exchange members and $25 for others. Everyone is welcome. For more information or to register visit www.gorhambusiness.org.

Sharp to speak

The regular meeting of Gorham Woman’s Club has been postponed until Thursday, Oct. 20, because the Fall Conference of the Maine Federation of Women’s Clubs will be Oct. 13 and 14 at Merry Manor in South Portland.

The monthly meeting at 12:30 at the Cressey Road Methodist Church in Gorham will include a potluck luncheon. Following lunch, Ted Sharp, Gorham School superintendent, will speak on “Recent Innovations in Education, Nationally and Locally.”

Members are asked to take a guest as well as something to share. For more information, call 839-6375.

Triad to meet

Gorham/Westbrook Triad will meet this month at 8:45 a.m. on Friday, Oct. 14, in the council chambers at Gorham Municipal Center, 75 South St., Gorham.

Triad, a coalition of senior citizens, law enforcement and community service providers, works to enhance safety of seniors.

Officer Ted Hatch of Gorham Police Department and Officer Sandy Mailman of Westbrook Police Department are the law enforcement liaisons for the group. David Garthe and Doris Ames co-chair Triad.

For more information, call Garthe at 839-5407; Ames, 839-2948; Hatch, 839-5581, ext. 279; or Mailman, 854-2531, ext. 533.

Gorham performers in ‘Hansel and Gretel’

Five Gorham performers are among nearly 50 young dancers from southern Maine in the Maine State Ballet version of the classic story “Hansel and Gretel” at its theater in Falmouth.

Performers from Gorham are students Nathaniel Dombek, Charlotte Feinberg, Mason Hawkes, Marissa Patten-Harris and Delaney Patten-Harris.

The performances on Saturdays, Oct. 15 and 22 will be the first shows held at the recently renovated theater in Falmouth. Seating capacity has been expanded from 115 to 140. It will be performed at 1 and 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 15, and Oct. 22. Tickets are on sale for $15. They can be purchased at www.mainestateballet.org, or by calling 781-3587 between 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

U.S. taxpayer debt

The Bureau of Public Debt reported on Sept. 29 that the U.S. public debt was $14,695,102,108,238.02.